As soon as Laban had seen the gold
jewelry
the stranger had given his sister,
he hurried out to tender his hospitality;
you say to welcome the poor.
The psalmist asks you for your favor
so it will prosper our work,
but if we want this for our own glory,
remind us, yours is the glory.
We are adjured to worship you in
reverence
because you are a consuming fire;
forgive me, God--I prefer to worship you
because of your consuming love.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 63; 149;
125; 90
Gen. 24:28-38,
49-51
Heb. 12:12-29
John 7:14-36
Selected Verses
Ps. 90:17
Let the favor of
the Lord our God be upon us,
and prosper for us the work of our hands —
O prosper the work of our hands!
and prosper for us the work of our hands —
O prosper the work of our hands!
Gen. 24:30-31a
As soon as [Laban]
had seen the nose-ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he
heard the words of his sister Rebekah, "Thus the man spoke to me," he
went to the man; and there he was, standing by the camels at the spring. He
said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD. …"
Heb. 12:28-29
Therefore, since
we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which
we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed
our God is a consuming fire.
John 7:18
"…Those who speak on their own seek their own glory; but
the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing
false in him. …" [Jesus, to his critics in the temple]
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